It must have been kind of disappointing. I was in a posting-frenzy, and then nothing for weeks. Sorry guys.
I'm in my new apartment now, and there's still no internet..so that's partly why.
I'm alive. Been very busy with moving, helping visiting teams, hanging out with our people, just a lot of things. It's been hot at night, sometimes too hot to sleep, so that's been taking a lot of my energy. Busyness + lack of sleep.
I had a good time with a visiting team from Ukraine, we went downtown to talk with the street kids and beggars. We gave them sandwiches and just spent some time with them. It was really great. Also, not so great but still exciting, I said goodbye to my friend who is moving with her family to Rwanda. I'm just excited for her to be there, and excited that maybe I could go visit her there! I really want to! Today went to an orphanage with the team from Ukraine, it's good because I was just there a few weeks ago and the kids still remember me. Building relationships. Went to a Georgian party last night: the owners of the house that Marina and I were living in before, returned. And so the neighbors, whom I befriended during my time there, had a party. I helped to make khinkali!! It was pretty fun too. Tomorrow we (Marina + kids and me) are going to Gardabani to help Diana (YWAM staff+friend) with their kid's program at their church. It's the first meeting (not ever, but the first one in a long time) and so hopefully that will be good too.
I'm learning a lot about having real faith. Persevering in relationship (sometimes making steps towards that and sometimes making mistakes (voluntary, usually) away from that...but definitely learning about the topic and hoping to see some victory soon!). Just getting more established here in YWAM Tbilisi and in what I'm doing. Building some new ideas for what I'd like to do/what God will call me to do, in the future. I realized that this was happening (this establishment) a few weeks ago, and I had this picture of like a tree putting it's roots down, and then remembered Psalm 1. "Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers." I want to be like that, in what I'm doing here in Georgia. My roots are going down (at least for now) and I want them to be planted by God's stream so that I bear fruit because of God's power through me and in me. Of course, I wish I could paint that word picture more beautifully (it's a little more detailed than that in my head) but I hope you understand.
So, this is my life.
"The life of our mission is people."
I'm in my new apartment now, and there's still no internet..so that's partly why.
I'm alive. Been very busy with moving, helping visiting teams, hanging out with our people, just a lot of things. It's been hot at night, sometimes too hot to sleep, so that's been taking a lot of my energy. Busyness + lack of sleep.
I had a good time with a visiting team from Ukraine, we went downtown to talk with the street kids and beggars. We gave them sandwiches and just spent some time with them. It was really great. Also, not so great but still exciting, I said goodbye to my friend who is moving with her family to Rwanda. I'm just excited for her to be there, and excited that maybe I could go visit her there! I really want to! Today went to an orphanage with the team from Ukraine, it's good because I was just there a few weeks ago and the kids still remember me. Building relationships. Went to a Georgian party last night: the owners of the house that Marina and I were living in before, returned. And so the neighbors, whom I befriended during my time there, had a party. I helped to make khinkali!! It was pretty fun too. Tomorrow we (Marina + kids and me) are going to Gardabani to help Diana (YWAM staff+friend) with their kid's program at their church. It's the first meeting (not ever, but the first one in a long time) and so hopefully that will be good too.
I'm learning a lot about having real faith. Persevering in relationship (sometimes making steps towards that and sometimes making mistakes (voluntary, usually) away from that...but definitely learning about the topic and hoping to see some victory soon!). Just getting more established here in YWAM Tbilisi and in what I'm doing. Building some new ideas for what I'd like to do/what God will call me to do, in the future. I realized that this was happening (this establishment) a few weeks ago, and I had this picture of like a tree putting it's roots down, and then remembered Psalm 1. "Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers." I want to be like that, in what I'm doing here in Georgia. My roots are going down (at least for now) and I want them to be planted by God's stream so that I bear fruit because of God's power through me and in me. Of course, I wish I could paint that word picture more beautifully (it's a little more detailed than that in my head) but I hope you understand.
So, this is my life.
"The life of our mission is people."
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